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Bexhill or Bexhill-on-Sea is a seaside town situated in the county of East Sussex in South East England. An ancient town and part of the local-government district of Rother, Bexhill is home to a number of archaeological sites, a Manor House in the Old Town, an abundance of Edwardian and Victorian architecture, and the famous De La Warr Pavilion: today a centre for contemporary art – which has featured the work of Andy Warhol, Cerith Wyn Evans and Richard Wilson amongst others – and an auditorium, where Bob Marley had his first UK appearance and has since seen performances by Elvis Costello, Goldfrapp, Ray Davies, Years & Years, Patti Smith and Laurie Anderson.
The first reference to Bexhill, or Bexelei as it was originally called, was in a charter granted by King Offa of Mercia in 772 AD. It is recorded that King Offa had 'defeated the men of Hastings' in 771 AD. At this time, the term Hastings would have referred to this whole area rather than the town itself as it does today. In the charter, King Offa established a church and religious community in Bexhill.
During the Norman Conquest of 1066 it appears that Bexhill was largely destroyed. The Domesday survey of 1086 records that the manor was worth £20 before the conquest, was 'waste' in 1066 and was worth £18 10s in 1086. King William I used the lands he had conquered to reward his knights and gave Bexhill manor to Robert, Count of Eu, with most of the Hastings area. Robert's grandson, John, Count of Eu, gave back the manor to the bishops of Chichester in 1148 and it is probable that the first manor house was built by the bishops at this time. The later manor house, the ruins of which can still be seen at the Manor Gardens in Bexhill Old Town, was built about 1250, probably on the instructions of St. Richard, Bishop of Chichester. St Richard's Catholic College, the local Catholic school, was duly for said bishop. The Manor House was the easternmost residence owned by the bishops and would have been used as a place to stay while travelling around or through the eastern part of their diocese. There were often disputes between the Bishops of Chichester and the Abbots of Battle Abbey, usually about land ownership in this area. In 1276 a large portion of Bexhill was made into a park for hunting and in 1447 Bishop Adam de Moleyns was given permission to fortify the Manor House.
In 1561 Queen Elizabeth I took possession of Bexhill Manor and three years later she gave it to Sir Thomas Sackville, Earl of Dorset. The Earls, later Dukes, of Dorset owned Bexhill until the mid 19th century. Their main residences were Buckhurst Place in Sussex and Knole House in Kent.
In 1804 soldiers of the King's German Legion were stationed in barracks at Bexhill. These troops were Hanoverians who had escaped when their country was overrun by Napoleon's French Army. As King George III was also the Elector of Hanover, he welcomed them and they fought as part of the British Army. At about this time, defensive Martello Towers were built along the south east coast, some near Bexhill, in order to repel any French invasion. In 1814 the soldiers of the King's German Legion left Bexhill, eventually playing an important part in the Battle of Waterloo the following year. The German troops had been here to protect Bexhill from the French. However, many of the local people were actively trading with the enemy by way of smuggling. The best known of the local smugglers were in the Little Common Gang and the most famous incident was the infamous Battle of Sidley Green in 1828.
In 1813 Elizabeth Sackville had married the 5th Earl De La Warr, and when the male line of the Dukes of Dorset died out in 1865 she and her husband inherited Bexhill.
It was the 7th Earl De La Warr who decided to transform the small rural village of Bexhill into an exclusive seaside resort. He contracted the builder, John Webb, to construct the first sea wall and to lay out De La Warr Parade. Webb, in part payment for his work, was given all the land extending from Sea Road to the Polegrove, south of the railway line. Opened in 1890, the luxurious Sackville Hotel was built for the 7th Earl De La Warr and originally included a house for the use of his family. In 1891 Viscount Cantelupe, his eldest surviving son, married Muriel Brassey, the daughter of Sir Thomas and the late Annie, Lady Brassey of Normanhurst Court near Bexhill. The Manor House was fully refurbished so that Lord and Lady Cantelupe could live in style as Lord and Lady of the Manor. Finally, the 7th Earl De La Warr transferred control of his Bexhill estate to Viscount Cantelupe. When the 7th Earl De La Warr died in 1896
Viscount Cantelupe became the 8th Earl De La Warr. At this time he organised the building on the sea front of the Kursaal, a pavilion for refined entertainment and relaxation. He also had a bicycle track made, with a cycle chalet, at the eastern end of De La Warr Parade. These amenities were provided to promote the new resort. Meanwhile, many independent schools were being attracted to the expanding town due to its health-giving reputation. The railway came through Bexhill in 1846, the first railway station being a small country halt situated roughly where Sainsbury's car park is today. This was some distance from the village on the hill. A new station, north of Devonshire Square, was opened in 1891 to serve the growing resort. In 1902 the current railway station was opened and a Bexhill West Station was built for the newly built Crowhurst Branch Line.
1902 was the year that Bexhill became an Incorporated Borough. This was the first Royal Charter granted by Edward VII. Bexhill was the last town in Sussex to be incorporated and it was the first time a Royal Charter was delivered by motorcar. To celebrate the town's newfound status and to promote the resort, the 8th Earl De La Warr organised the country's first ever motorcar races along De La Warr Parade in May 1902. The town was scandalised at this time by the divorce of Earl De La Warr.
Muriel had brought the action on the grounds of adultery and abandonment. She was granted a divorce and given custody of their three children. Muriel, with her children, Myra, Avice and Herbrand, went back to live with Earl Brassey at Normanhurst Court. The 8th Earl De La Warr remarried but was again divorced for adultery. He also suffered recurrent and well-publicised financial difficulties. At the start of the First World War in 1914 the Earl bought a Royal Naval commission. He died of fever at Messina in 1915.
Herbrand Edward Dundonald Brassey Sackville became the 9th Earl De La Warr. He is best known for championing the construction of the De La Warr Pavilion, which was built and opened in 1935. The 9th Earl also became Bexhill's first socialist mayor. He died in 1976.
The Second World War caused the evacuation of the schools and substantial bomb-damage to the town. Many schools returned to Bexhill after the war but there was a steady decline in the number of independent schools in the town. The break-up of the British Empire and in particular the Independence of India in 1947 hastened the process. Most of the schools were boarding and catered largely for the children of the armed forces overseas and of the colonial administration. Although the number of schools decreased, many of the parents and former pupils had fond memories of the town and later retired to Bexhill.
For further information please visit
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bexhill-on-Sea and www.discoverbexhill.com/
This photograph was taken on Amherst Island Ontario. Exploring the whole island is like taking a step back in time. So many old farms, barns and artefacts displayed on every turn. The light is magical..and this photo, I think captures some of the feelings that I experienced. Enjoy and thanks for favs and comments!
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'Lately I been, I been losing sleep
Dreaming about the things that we could be
But baby I been, I been prayin' hard
Said no more counting dollars
We'll be counting stars
Yeah, we'll be counting stars'
One Rebublic
💞two of the most important persons on my Sl 💞
💛💛If you ever find yourself stuck in the middle of the sea,
I'll sail the world to find you
If you ever find yourself lost in the dark and you can't see,
I'll be the light to guide you
Find out what we're made of
When we are called to help our friends in need
You can count on me like one two three
I'll be there
And I know when I need it I can count on you like four three two
You'll be there
'Cause that's what friends are supposed to do, oh yeah💛💛
Today, I'm wearing the Tee*fy top and the Reign shoes available at this month's N21! Shorts are by Pixicat, hair by Doux. The stars in this pic are by Fiasco, and the coat, picture, and propeller are by the awesome Blue Sky. (Blue Sky will be opening their in-world store by tomorrow and will ALSO be in 50L Friday!)
Lately, I've been, I've been losing sleep
Dreaming about the things that we could be
But baby, I've been, I've been praying hard
Said no more counting dollars
We'll be counting stars
Yeah we'll be counting stars
A father and son enjoy rowing across the small lake at Vogel State Park in North, Georgia, USA. I just happened to like the reflections on the lake.
Sometimes while observing nature it reminds me to count my blessings. When my daughter was about ten years old once said, "I don't have everything I want but I have everything I need." You can learn a lot listening to children too.
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I love b/w, but color can be a lot of fun in a studio where you can make choices of mixing warm and cool colors to get an effect and evoke a feeling. Likewise, it is fun to go in one direction, either cool or warm and work only in that palette. This image reflects a warm approach, and illustrates the difference in mood when compared with the previous image I posted that emphasized cool colors. Both feature daisies from the same bunch of flowers.
I haven’t been able to go out and work on my night time series for the past several weeks. But my camera still calls to me, so I’ve returned to the studio, so to speak, to shoot flowers. I decided to use light painting. The result is really an eclectic mix of styles. Each day, I ran with whatever idea came to me, and improvised as I went along. So this is more an odds and sods collection than a series of thematically connected images. There has been a lot of discards along the way, but enough keepers to start posting. It is keeping me engaged, and I hope to soon get back out under night skies.
For a look at them as a collection, check out, Flowers & Light Painting
I want to tell you the ocean knows this, that life in its
jewel boxes is endless as the sand, impossible to count, pure,
and among the blood-colored grapes time has made the
petal hard and shiny, made the jellyfish full of light
and untied its knot, letting its musical threads fall
from a horn of plenty made of infinite mother-of-pearl.
I am nothing but the empty net which has gone on ahead
of human eyes, dead in those darkness,
of fingers accustomed to the triangle, longitudes
on the timid globe of an orange.
Extract from Enigmas by Pablo Neruda.
NMWA-25 gets back underway at Pittsfield, after picking up units from the wreck train and WA-3's power.
The day prior, the wreck train was supposed to combine with WA-3, which had tied down at Pittsfield on its return trip from Detroit. Things didn't pan out as GP40 334 was dead and 519 the other other unit on the wreck train, was blowing oil out the stack bad enough the crew had to stop several times enroute to clean the windows.
When they got to Pittsfield they were short on time, so they shuffled cars around on the siding. While doing so they found several of the plain bearings on the wreck train had overheated and the grain cars from Detroit, were heavily damaged from the unloading process. So they ended up tying down there.
The following day NMWA stopped to pick up the 4 units on the siding, running into town with the 509 and the 511 to grab the power. While doing so, 509 developed a radiator leak and lost its water and shut down. By that point NMWA was low on time and just grabbed the power and ran back to the train. Upon recrewing the train, the next crew found that they didn't have enough jumpers to tie the operational units together. So once again there was a wait while someone ran some up from Waterville.
Finally getting underway at dusk, the crew and five units, are seen creeping by the station which was undergoing restoration at the time.
Today just about every locomotive in this photo is scrapped, retired, sold, or stored.
Pan Am Railways
Train: NMWA-25
4/25/2019
Pittsfield, ME
ST District 1 Freight Main Line
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Please get involved by spending 15 minutes outside counting butterflies and then submit your sightings online thanks
Every fading barn has a story, some a very normal history while others have many untold stories from generations of farmers raising a family while making a living tilling the soil and care-taking animals. This barn looks well taken care of even though it appears empty amidst the new summer's growth around it. Someone spent a good deal of money on a new roof. My father always told me to count the cost of something not only in the present but also how it would affect me in the future. Many of the plans we make in life turn out to be expensive lessons.
Count your life with smiles and not the tears that roll.
(~Author Unknown)
Almost weekend, have fun everyone,
and to those who are, like most of us in Europe, caught in snow chaos, hang in there!
Keep it warm!
I'm on a quest to document how many different birds I see while out and about. These aren't Nat Geo quality shots necessarily, just records of what I see. By different, I mean the different species, of course, but also the male and female of a species if they are substantially different. Also, if a species has major /obvious colour variations, I'll count them as 'different' as well.
Looks like over fifty of them. It is raining in the foreground, but clear over Whernside.
70813 rolls slowly off the single track section on Ribblehead Viaduct with the 6J37 12.58 Carlisle Yard to Chirk Kronospan timber.
One that got away. Happy Thanksgiving to my U.S. friends, and to all, enjoy your day. Wild Turkey, San Luis Obispo County, California.
“The cost of housing migrants in Britain has tripled to £4 million (€4.7 million) a day, according to The Telegraph.”
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05/07/true-cost-of-asylum-h...
The Bible says that the antichrists kingdom will be a mixture of people who will not remain united. What we are seeing in Europe is Bible prophecy in action. The Bible also says that God will send the people a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie. Definitely, there are a lot of zombie-like people walking around these days.
Luke 14:28 “For which of you, desiring to build a tower, doth not first sit down and count the cost, whether he have wherewith to complete it?”
The tower of multiculturalism was sold to Canada by whom?
“Trudeau (Justin Trudeau’s daddy) claimed that there was no official Canadian culture and that no ethnic group should take precedence.” –Maclean’s
“There is no core identity, no mainstream in Canada,” (Justin) Trudeau said, concluding that he sees Canada as “the first post-national state.” –Toronto Sun
Under Justin Trudeau’s daddy, Canada became the first country in the world to introduce a multiculturalism policy. This policy laid the groundwork for the Canadian Multiculturalism Act of 1988. “It was the sort of stance that former Tory prime minister John Diefenbaker could embrace, as he did when his government passed the Bill of Rights in 1960.” Later came the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. This charter gave judges the power to veto legislation. How democratic! This charter was just a scam to push through a bunch of new world order junk, which under the old system would have taken much more time to push through! Though the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms has greatly sped up the demise of Canada, most Canadians praise it.
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A pair of Gray Partridges resting in the railroad track under a rail car. We counted 221 Gray Partridges there today, mostly under bins and train cars.... SouthSask Quality Food Processors, Regina, Saskatchewan. 19 February 2023
I can probably count the number of times I've used a 6 stop filter on one hand and that excludes the thumb. This is partly because I'm too lazy to calculate the amount of time required most often resorting to guesswork but also because I never seem to find the right kind of image in the right kind of light. Today was slightly different however, the trees were still, the mist was rising, the water swirling and there was really only one thing preventing me from having a go...I was on a barge! 9 shots straight in the trash but this one crept through.
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"Take a moment to see where you are, smell the air and look at the stars. Don't always put something between you and what's real!" (including the camera) We are lucky to be here! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Let this be the day
where we begin
to.
Happy Thanksgiving, my friends.
Thank you, all, for your genuine, unselfish support from day one 'til today. You are amongst my many many blessings in life. I hope all the good things you do come back to you a hundred fold.
A firm handshake, a warm embrace to everyone. Maraming maraming salamat po.
Bicycle at twilight
St. Peters Street,
French Quarters
New Orleans, Louisiana
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